Last Updated: Tuesday May 17 2005 15:33 GMT

The circle is complete...

"It was originally one movie. But I broke it into three because I didn't have the money to make a five-hour film."

That might seem a bit of an odd thing for someone to say at the end of a thirty-year, six-film, world changing space saga, but George Lucas, Star Wars head honcho, originally thought small.

"I just wanted to tell the tragedy of Darth Vader. I'd written a back story about all the characters, but I didn't intend to make them as movies," he goes on.

But then he conquered the world with Episodes IV, V and VI, and changed his mind.

"After 10 years, I realised the tragedy had been lost - I wanted to tell the full story, and finally the technology existed to let me do it," Lucas explains, having finished Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, the sixth and final film.